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SCHNEIDER v. RUSK

Civ. A. No. 324-60.

218 F.Supp. 302 (1963)

Angelika L. SCHNEIDER, Plaintiff, v. Dean RUSK, individually and as Secretary of State, Defendant.

United States District Court District of Columbia.

May 21, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Milton V. Freeman, Werner J. Kronstein, and Robert E. Herzstein, Washington, D. C.; Horst Kurnik, New York City, Charles A. Reich, New Haven, Conn., and Arnold, Fortas & Porter, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Archibald Cox, Solicitor Gen., Herbert J. Miller, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., J. William Doolittle, Asst. to the Solicitor Gen., Beatrice Rosenberg, J. F. Bishop, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for defendant.

Jack Wasserman, David Carliner, Washington, D. C., and Melvin L. Wulf, New York City, for American Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae.

Before FAHY, Circuit Judge, and KEECH and MATTHEWS, District Judges

MATTHEWS, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a national of Germany at birth who became in 1950 a naturalized citizen of the United States, has been declared to have lost her American citizenship by reason of residing continuously in the foreign country of her origin for three years. The issue she raises before the court is whether this divesture of citizenship accords with the Constitution. The statute1 relied upon by the Government to effect...

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